CHICAGO (CBS) – An SUV crashed into a restaurant in the Edgewater neighborhood on Saturday evening.
At 6:56 p.m., police were called to Alexander’s Restaurant, 6158 N. Clark St. at the southwest corner of the intersection with Granville Avenue, after an SUV drove directly into it.
A man was driving the SUV south on Clark Street and ran a red light, police said. He first struck a silver sedan traveling west on Granville Avenue and then came to a stop in front of Alexander’s Restaurant — which was closed at the time, police said.
Neither the driver of the SUV nor the driver of the car it struck were injured, police said. The driver of the SUV received a ticket, police said.
Alexander’s Restaurant has been in operation since the early 1960s, and chef Luis Mizhquiri has been on board since the late 1980s, according to the restaurant. In addition to the Clark Street
The accident on Saturday evening was the second of two accidents with very similar circumstances on Clark Street in the north of the city in the past week alone.
Last Sunday night at 9:48 p.m., a Lexus RX300 SUV was traveling north on Clark Street when it ran a red light at Montrose Avenue — and collided with a car traveling west on that east-west street, police said at the time.
The driver of the SUV in the earlier accident also ploughed into a restaurantt – Anna Maria Pasteria, 4400 N. Clark St. The driver of the SUV in the earlier crash was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center for neck and back pain and received a ticket, police said.
